Vote for your favourite weird movie

Thank you BaldFriede for your reply to my question.

Agreed that Eraserhead isn't Lynch's weirdest. Lacking some Cronenberg in the list tho. Other hand, I don't have Donnie Darko and Pan's at my "weird" movies list. Have you guys heard of Tetsuo Iron Man or any other from Tsukamoto? BTW, check this german movie now, kinda Liquid Sky meets space dada: 

Maybe it shouldn't, but "Jump onto my hand, you frog, I want to blow you up" made me laugh out loud. In Australia kids were licking Cane toads, so perhaps blowing frogs shouldn't be that odd an idea of fun to me.

Logan wrote: Not a children's game in my neck of the woods, so certainly weird to me. I also find decapitating people for not sharing the same beliefs quite weird. It's relative.

In the short story  "Nur noch ein Kapitelchen" ("Just one more little chapter") by Siegfried Lenz, one of the most important German authors of the 20th century, from his book of short stories "So zärtlich war Suleyken" (which would translate as "That's how endearing Sulejki was") the character General Wawrila says to the character Hamilkar Schaß: "Spring auf meine Hand, du Frosch, ich will dich aufblasen" ("Jump onto my hand, you frog, I want to blow you up").

That collection of short stories was published in 1955, and I read it as a kid (that story actually was in one of my school books). So Lenz seems to have been familiar with blowing up frogs; he probably did it himself as a kid.

Not a children's game in my neck of the woods, so certainly weird to me. I also find decapitating people for not sharing the same beliefs quite weird. It's relative.

Weird is a relative term. I found it unusual and off-beat when I saw it back in the 90s and it made a big impression on me (liked it enough to watch it several times). Generally, all that really matters to me in film is if I enjoy something. I wonder if, perhaps, you're going into watching the film with these expectations of weirdness and so in looking for weirdness and analyzing it, you find it less unusual than you would if you experienced it with no preconceptions.

I just thought of another one that may not fit your idea of weirdness, but I consider weirdly satisfying, the French film Baxter.

Edited by Logan - February 24 2016 at 13:33

Logan wrote: Reflecting Skin is weird, like the scene with the frog. I loved that film. Actually, I love all the ones you mentioned Dr. Wu. A recentish horrorish film that is kind of strange, and I loved, is Under the Skin. There are so many weird and wonderful films.

BaldFriede wrote: dr wu23 wrote: Plenty of weird films out there....old and new......from that list I suppose I'll pick Eraserhead....but regarding Lynch I would choose Mulholland Drive or Inland Empire . Videodrome by Cronenberg  is one of my favorite weird ones not on the list. With Greenaway I would go with The Cook, The Thief ,His Wife and Her Lover. some others I liked..... Donnie Darko Pan's Labyrinth Naked Lunch The Reflecting Skin I don't really consider "Pan's Labyrinth" to be weird. It is a bit out of the ordinary, yes, but not that weird. I should have mentioned "Naked Lunch"; I just didn't think of it. I have never seen the other two.

Edited by dr wu23 - February 24 2016 at 11:26

Plenty of weird films out there....old and new......from that list I suppose I'll pick Eraserhead....but regarding Lynch I would choose Mulholland Drive or Inland Empire .

Guy Guden wrote: Did you decide on just choosing one title from each respective director?

Yes, else for example "El Topo" ("The Mole") by Alejandro Jodorowsky would have been on the list as well. And a lot more of Luis Buñuel, Peter Greenaway or David Lynch.

Edited by BaldFriede - February 24 2016 at 09:47